— but some users are looking for something more serious (perhaps even permanent).If you're in search of a long-term relationship and everything that comes with it, here are the sites with the best odds for finding just that. For every dating site or app that charges close to per month, such as Match, e Harmony, or JDate, there are plenty of other popular ones like Ok Cupid or Tinder that are free.

“There are people of different intentions on every platform; it’s more important what your intention is.” Perhaps the key factor that determines whether you’ll like a site is not the price to join but the kind of people you find on it and how they behave and communicate.Both kinds are popular, so you can’t go just by that.In the 2016 Consumer Reports Online Dating Survey, more than 9,600 people who had used an online dating service in the last two years were asked which one they had joined.boasts "600,000 married couples who met on e Harmony," and writes on their site that, on average, "438 people get married every day in the United States because of e Harmony." That number comes from a 2012 survey that was paid for by e Harmony, so take from it what you will — but it's certainly possible that e Harmony's reputation for leading to marriage may have the circular effect of attracting people who are looking for serious relationships..In February, e Harmony CEO Neil Clark Warren, who co-founded the company as a Christian dating site, told CNN, "We didn't want to pretend to be experts on gay and lesbian couples ... It's a different match."In the same interview, Warren defended e Harmony against apps like Tinder, saying that Tinder was used for hook-ups, not marriage.